Paired-end mapping reveals extensive structural variation in the human genome.
Science, 2007/10/19;318(5849):420-6.
Korbel JO[1], Urban AE, Affourtit JP, Godwin B, Grubert F, Simons JF, Kim PM, Palejev D, Carriero NJ, Du L, Taillon BE, Chen Z, Tanzer A, Saunders AC, Chi J, Yang F, Carter NP, Hurles ME, Weissman SM, Harkins TT, Gerstein MB, Egholm M, Snyder M
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Abstract
Structural variation of the genome involves kilobase- to megabase-sized deletions, duplications, insertions, inversions, and complex combinations of rearrangements. We introduce high-throughput and massive paired-end mapping (PEM), a large-scale genome-sequencing method to identify structural variants (SVs) approximately 3 kilobases (kb) or larger that combines the rescue and capture of paired ends of 3-kb fragments, massive 454 sequencing, and a computational approach to map DNA reads onto a reference genome. PEM was used to map SVs in an African and in a putatively European individual and identified shared and divergent SVs relative to the reference genome. Overall, we fine-mapped more than 1000 SVs and documented that the number of SVs among humans is much larger than initially hypothesized; many of the SVs potentially affect gene function. The breakpoint junction sequences of more than 200 SVs were determined with a novel pooling strategy and computational analysis. Our analysis provided insights into the mechanisms of SV formation in humans.
MeSH terms
Chromosome Inversion; Chromosome Mapping; Computational Biology; Female; Gene Fusion; Genetic Variation; Genome, Human; Humans; Mutagenesis, Insertional; Mutation; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; Recombination, Genetic; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; Retroelements; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Sequence Deletion
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